secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Essential Utilities, Inc. (WTRG)
CIK:        0000078128
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-05-02T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001552781-24-000269
Event type: other
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Essential Utilities shareholders elect all nine director nominees at 2024 annual meeting
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- All nine director nominees elected, including Christopher H. Franklin, with votes ranging from 194.8M to 207.5M 'for' and up to 14.4M 'withheld'.
- Advisory vote on 2023 executive compensation approved with 194.7M 'for', 13.0M 'against', and 1.4M 'abstain'.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor for fiscal 2024 passed with 227.6M 'for', 11.1M 'against', and 0.9M 'abstain'.
- Amendment to bylaws implementing universal proxy rules ratified with 206.6M 'for', 1.6M 'against', and 1.0M 'abstain'.
- Broker non-votes recorded: 30.4M for director elections, advisory vote, and bylaw amendment; none for auditor ratification.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278124000269/0001552781-24-000269-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278124000269/e24211_wtrg-8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-24-000269

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